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📣 tiffanyh

Where to host for a fully managed OS?


I’m looking for a web host. I don’t want to have to deal with OS updates, log rotation, web server / Lets Encrypt setup, etc.

You typically get all of this on a Shared web server plan.

But I need more resources and typically dedicated servers from web hosting company’s are unmanaged.

Does anyone have a recommendations?

  👤 desindol Accepted Answer ✓
Some clients have managed servers at hetzner never heard anything bad.

Edit: Ah… yes the downvote for answering the question. I hope you get stuck in traffic for the next week.

👤 solardev
TLDR there are a lot more options these days than just "managed vs unmanaged" hosting.

What exactly are you trying to run/host?

If it's a webpage/web app, you might not even need a traditional managed LAMP/LEMP stack... there are next-gen hosts like Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Gatsby, or slightly-less-next-gen hosts like AWS Amplify, Github Pages, Google App Engine, etc. I would call these "serverless web hosts", where you can basically git push your repo and all the hosting and scaling are taken care of for you, transparently, and you never have to worry about any of the LEMP stack anymore.

Have you considered that instead?

Or if it's Wordpress or Drupal you're running, Pantheon is (IMO) miles above the rest. WPEngine and Kinsta are competitors.

Otherwise, for general managed hosting, yeah, Hetzner is one that I've heard good things about. I've also used and liked RoseHosting.

Cloudways is "managed automation" in that they abstract a lot of the management into a nice control panel, and it works pretty well as long as you don't have to deviate from their templates. GridPane and RunCloud can do similar things on your own VMs.